Combined napkin holder and ring



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

H. G. O. HUSS. GOMBINBD NAPKIN HOLDER AND RING.

Patented Apr. 28, 1896.

1&0. 559,2 9.

ANDREW B GRAHAM. PNOlB-IJMQWASHINGTDN. DC

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

H. 0. 0. HUSS. COMBINED NAPKIN HOLDER AND RING.

No. 559,289. Patented Apr. 28, 1896. x

UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

HERMANN C. O. IIUSS, OF PRINCETON, NEIV JERSEY.

COMBINED NAPKIN HOLDER AND RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 559,289, dated April 28, 1896.

I Application filed November 5, 1895. Serial No. 568,025. (No model.)

To aZZ whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, I-IERMANN O. 0. lines, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Princeton, in the State of New J ersey, have invented a certain new and useful Napkin-Holder, Serving at the Same Time as a N apkin-Ring, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a SGlVlGlZt-GrllOldGl, which in addition to being capable of holding the serviette in a rolled form is also a device for retaining the opened or unfolded serviette in the desired position upon the person of the user thereof.

This holder consists of an elastic strip, band, or wire provided at each end with a hook. WVhen the holder is required to act as a serviette-rin g, it is rolled in a circular form and the two end hooks are engaged with the body portion or with notches or holes therein, so that the holder thus rolled retains its circular form. When it is to be used for sup porting an unfolded or opened serviette upon the person of the user, it is unrolled and the end hooks are engaged with the lapels of the coat or inserted into the coat or otherwise attached thereto and the unfolded serviette is hung upon it, or the hooks may be engaged with the starched or stiffened edges of the shirt-front or with the armholes of the waistcoat or with folds in the clothing, or the two hooked ends may be engaged with each other, so that the holder forms a yoke, which may be suspended from the neck of the user. This mode of using the serviette-holder is especially to be recommended for children.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a rolled serviette S encircled by one of my improved holders, which in this instance has its circular form. Fig. 2 is a view showing the holder unrolled and engaging by means of its end hooks b with the edges of the shirt-front of the user, one corner of the unfolded serviette S being folded over the holder. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one construction of myimproved holder unrolled. Fig. 4 is an end view of the same construction of the holder made into annular form. Fig. 5 is a plan view of part of the same holder drawn to a larger scale than that of Figs. 3 and 4. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of an alternative construction of holder unrolled. Fig. 7 is an end view of the same rolled into circular form. Fig. 8 is a large scale plan of part of this alternative width from the center toward each end. l) are hooks into which each end of the strip is formed. 0 c are serrations made in the edges of the strip, near its center. The serrations c are arranged to point in a direction opposite to that of the serrations c. The holder in the form in which it is shown in Fig. 3 is in readiness to be hooked onto the apparel of the user. To convert it into a serviette-ring it is bent into circular form, as shown in Fig. 4. To retain itin that form the hooks I) must be engaged with serrations c c, as shown.

In the modification illustrated in Figs. 6, 7, and 8 perforations d (instead of serrations) are provided in the body of the strip, as shown, for the end hooks Z) to engage with. In this example only one of the end hooks I) need be engaged with a perforation when the strip is rolled up, for the other hook Z) comes to the inside of the ring (see Fig. 7) and has no tendency to get out of place.

In the further modification illustrated in Figs. 9 and 10 the holder consists of a piece of wire with hooked ends 1). Instead of perforations, such as cl, Fig. 8, or serrations, such as c c, Fig. 3, the wire is bent into zigzags 0 0 with which the end books I) are engaged when the wire is bent into circular form, as shown in Fig. 10.

The band a may assume any'desired ornamental form and may be made of any suitable material. For example, instead of being made of a single piece of metal,such as springy sheet-steel, it might be made of woven wire or of celluloid. In the latter case the hooks I) would preferably be made of metal and secured by rivets or otherwise to the main portion of the band. Instead of a series of serrations, perforations, or zigzags only one or length with retaining devices for the said hooks substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of the two subscribing witnesses.

HERMANN C. O. HUSS.

Vitnesses Orro WoLFF, HUGO GUNNER. 

